"Transformation Mode. Heavy Mechanical Form."
With their first three attackers already down, the remaining five finally stopped holding back.
Wall Eehto, the mechanized alchemist known as the Arbiter, reconfigured his entire body into his ultimate combat frame.
At the same time, Brandish activated her mass-alteration magic and magnified him to colossal scale.
A ten-thousand-meter-tall war machine now stood over the battlefield.
"Crush him!" Wall roared.
The giant metal palm came down toward Rowan like a falling continent.
Rowan looked up.
"…Did he just turn into a Gundam?"
His body surged outward in response.
Giant-form magic detonated.
In an instant, the golden cat expanded to the same colossal height.
Two titans met midair.
"Good. You're big. I'm bigger."
Their clash looked less like a battle and more like a kaiju movie gone off the rails.
Wall's arm morphed into twin pile-drivers and hammered toward Rowan's face while missile arrays unfolded along his back.
Dozens of alchemical warheads arced behind Rowan for a surprise strike.
Rowan flicked his paw.
"Turn around."
The missiles bent midair, looped behind him, and slammed directly into Wall's head.
The explosion tore off half the robot's face.
Before Wall could react, his entire body locked in place.
Rowan stood upright and began slapping him with both paws.
Metal screamed.
Moments later, Wall collapsed into a field of scattered parts.
—
A tide of black poison surged toward Rowan.
Bloodman had joined in.
Cursed miasma, corrosive fog, and spectral skulls flooded the battlefield.
Rowan's Golden Light Ward absorbed it all.
He exhaled a tri-colored inferno that erased the poison cloud entirely.
—
"Time Scar."
Dimaria struck again.
Temporal backlash flooded Rowan's body.
Every wound he had ever suffered reappeared at once.
He paused.
Then straightened.
"…That's it?"
Dimaria stared.
"That should have—"
"Those injuries stopped mattering a long time ago."
Rowan raised his paw.
"Soul Seizure."
Black energy wrapped around Dimaria.
A divine soul was torn from her body, screaming with temporal power.
Rowan's eyes gleamed.
"…Now that's premium."
He swallowed it whole.
Dimaria collapsed, pale and trembling.
—
Neinhart tried to summon Rowan's deepest fears.
The spell failed before it formed.
His magic couldn't penetrate Rowan's mind.
—
"Enough tricks."
God Serena laughed and stepped forward.
Eight Dragon Slayer elements erupted at once.
The combined blast could have erased a nation.
Rowan's eyes sharpened.
"Fairy Law. No—"
He changed his mind.
"Fairy Brilliance."
A pillar of radiant magic obliterated Serena's attack and hurled him into the ground, broken and unconscious.
—
August and Irene finally raised their staffs.
Rowan didn't wait.
"…Time to end this."
"Fairy Law."
The sky darkened.
Judgment descended.
